Category: Blog

Categories
Blog

Kindle Direct Publishing


This looks very cool, self-publishing to Kindle… “In addition to having your books available for purchase on Kindle devices and on Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Mac, Blackberry, Android-based devices, and Windows Phone 7, you also have the opportunity to participate in the 70% royalty program and can specify pricing in US Dollars, Pounds Sterling, or Euros. You can also publish books written in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian – reaching audiences around the world…”

Kindle Direct Publishing: Self-publish to Amazon’s Kindle Store

Categories
Blog

Bon Iver Covering “Who Is It” (Björk) Riverside Theater, Milwaukee 7/23/11

We caught the Mon. AUG 1st show at 9:30 Club, and the Björk cover was a standout… here’s some fairly good video and audio footage from the start of their tour, Riverside Theater, Milwaukee 7/23/11, from YouTube user dephot…

Bon Iver, “Who Is It” (Björk) [HD/Stereo], Riverside Theater, Milwaukee July 23, 2011

Categories
Blog

Herschel Detects Molecular Oxygen in the Orion Nebula

Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech

Herschel has found the first robust evidence of molecular oxygen in the Orion Nebula. The observed abundance is ten times larger than indicated by previous observations of other molecular clouds, but is still well below theoretical expectations. The results suggest that, in special circumstances, the heat from newborn stars can liberate oxygen frozen out on dust grains, thus increasing the amount of molecular oxygen able to form in warm, dense gas clouds…

ESA Science & Technology: Herschel uncovers ‘hidden’ oxygen in Orion

Categories
Blog

NPR Will Webcast Tue. 9:30 Club Bon Iver Show

Bon Iver self-titled

I‘m very psyched to be going to tonight’s (Mon AUG 1st) Bon Iver show at 9:30 Club (face-value Craigslist tickets no less)… and just learned that tomorrow (Tue AUG 2nd) night’s show will also be webcast by NPR Music, very cool. Haven’t watched a webcast on NPR yet, looking forward to checking it out.

Live Tuesday: Bon Iver In Concert

Categories
Blog

Trying Google+

 

 

I‘ve been trying out Google+ for a few days… a little confusing to figure out what to do, but seems very cool.  The group video conferencing feature “Hangouts” seems to me like it will be huge…

My profile is at:  michaelshupp@gmail.com

Interactive demo: Welcome to the Google+ project

Categories
Blog

Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle – Forbes

Fermilab

“Scientists at Fermilab have announced the discovery of a new particle – the neutral combination of a strange quark, an up quark and a bottom quark, which has been dubbed Xi-sub-b for now. It’s a neutral particle, making it a cousin to the neutron (which is comprised of one up quark and two down quarks). The existence of this particle is predicted by current ideas in physics, but…”

Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle – Alex Knapp – Robot Overlords – Forbes.

Categories
Blog

Installed Google+ iPhone App

Google+ iPhone App

I installed the Google+ iPhone app moments ago… it was available as a download from the iTunes App Store on computer, but isn’t showing up yet as downloadable directly to the iPhone; still had to perform a sync to get it installed on the device…

Home screen
Categories
Blog

Space shuttle prepares to depart station for last time | Reuters

STS-135

“The crew of NASA’s final space shuttle mission closed the hatch to the International Space Station for the final time on Monday in preparation for the shuttle’s last flight back to Earth.”  Beautiful slideshow:

Space shuttle prepares to depart station for last time | Reuters